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Secession

noun

The act of seceding.

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Secession can be a bit like breaking a biscuit: crumbs everywhere and two pieces that don't seem quite as appealing as the original.

"In the worst-case scenario, these are the seeds of secession and civil war".

However, the fact that the leader of a party that fields candidates only in Scotland – and advocates to secession from the rest of Britain, topped a UK-wide poll is remarkable.

Politically, however, the report's most important conclusion is its assertion that the SNP's wish for a yes vote to translate into an agreed secession completed by March 2016 may not be achieved.

Olesya Gerasimenko, a correspondent for the Kommersantnewspaper, said most Russians in the regions would not support secession, but would back greater economic autonomy, including measures forcing resource extraction companies to pay taxes in the regions where they operate rather than in Moscow.

The army remains deeply suspicious of India, a country that has beaten Pakistan in three conflicts since independence and played a critical role in the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971.

The proletariat must demand the right of political secession for the colonies and for the nations that 'its own' nation oppresses.

Reach Nevis via St Kitts (twice weekly on British Airways), or via Antigua (as before), from where it is a 20-minute hop with LIAT A West Indian home from home, this family business has been going for years, since before Anguilla's "revolution" in 1967, and eventual secession from St Kitts.

With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, southern states felt – as South Carolina's articles of secession put it – they'd "no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the federal government will have become their enemy".

Ukip does almost no electoral business north of the border, and before this month's referendum on independence, polling suggested that the prospect of Britain leaving the EU sharply increased support for Scottish secession from the UK – so how Scotland would react to Brexit is a very interesting question.

And only a fraction of that number say they want another vote on the question.Mr Bouchard hopes to enthuse them by holding an "estates-general" on language, the issue on which support for secession has always hung.

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